Abbreviations |
ix |
Introduction |
xi |
PART ONE: INCULTURATION, ITS NATURE AND FUNCTION |
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1 Understanding the Terms |
3 |
Culture |
4 |
Enculturation |
5 |
Acculturation |
6 |
Cultural Domination |
8 |
Inculturation |
10 |
Interculturation |
13 |
2 Evolution of the Church's Understanding of Culture |
17 |
Classicist and Modern Views of Culture |
17 |
The Problem of Cultural Relativism |
23 |
Religion and the Relativization of Culture |
26 |
3 Culture and Religion |
31 |
Culture as a Social Phenomenon |
31 |
The Levels of Culture |
35 |
Religion as Cultural System |
40 |
4 Cultural Change |
45 |
Types of Cultural Change |
45 |
Modernization and Technological Change |
51 |
Christianity and Cultural Change |
54 |
5 The Christian Term of Inculturation |
59 |
The Subject-Matter of Inculturation |
59 |
Culture and the Christian Patrimony |
63 |
Culture and Communion in a World Church |
67 |
PART TWO: THE THEOLOGY OF INCULTURATION |
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6 Christology and Inculturation |
75 |
The Eternal Logos at the Heart of Culture |
75 |
The Logic of the Incarnation |
79 |
The Challenge of the Paschal Mystery |
83 |
7 Inculturation and Salvation |
89 |
The Necessity of Baptism |
89 |
Minimum Explicit Faith and Implicit Faith |
93 |
The Church and Other Religious Cultural Systems |
96 |
8 Inculturation in the Old Testament |
104 |
God's Acculturation |
104 |
The Canaanite Inculturation |
109 |
The Tension Between Israel's Election and Universal Mission |
111 |
The Cultural Implications of the Wisdom Economy |
114 |
The Jewish Encounter with Hellenism |
116 |
9 Jesus and Culture |
119 |
Jesus: Promise to the Nations |
119 |
Paul, the Apostle of the Nations |
122 |
The Church of Jerusalem and the Church of Corinth |
128 |
PART THREE: MISSION AND CULTURATION |
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10 Inculturation and the Early Missions |
137 |
The Rise of the Eastern Churches |
138 |
Gregory I and the Anglo-Saxon Mission |
141 |
Saints Cyril and Methodius |
143 |
The Christian Kingdom of the Kongo |
145 |
The Dialogue of Faith and Culture in Medieval Europe |
148 |
11 Inculturation and the Post-Reformation Missions |
152 |
Reformation, Counter-Reformation and Culture |
152 |
The Congregation de Propaganda Fide |
155 |
Matteo Ricci and the Chinese Rites |
157 |
Roberto de Nobili in India |
160 |
Pedro Paez in Ethiopia |
160 |
Lessions of the Counter-Reformation Missions |
161 |
12 Mission and Culture in the Nineteenth Century |
164 |
Vatican I and Anti-Modernism |
164 |
Nineteenth-Century Missionary Founders and Culture |
168 |
Protestant Cultural Approaches to Mission |
173 |
PART FOUR: THE TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON |
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INCULTURATION TODAY |
177 |
13 Evolution of the Church's Thought Before Vatican II |
179 |
The Early Mission Encyclicals of this Centuty |
179 |
The Recognition of Cultural Pluralism by Plus XII |
183 |
John XXIII and the Equality of Cultures in the Church |
186 |
14 The Second Vatican Council and Inculturation |
191 |
The Practical Question of Liturgical Reform |
191 |
Cultures in the Mission Documents of the Council |
195 |
Culture in the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World |
200 |
15 Inculturation in the Teaching of Paul VI |
206 |
The Message to Africa and the Kampala Address |
206 |
The 1974 Synod of Bishops |
211 |
The Apostolic Exhortation on Evangelization in the Modern World |
215 |
16 John Paul II and Inculturation |
222 |
Catechesis in Our Time |
222 |
The First African Journey |
225 |
The Council for Culture and the Apostles of the Slavs |
230 |
Before and After the Extraordinary Synod |
233 |
PART FIVE: THE FUTURE OF INCULTURATION IN THE CATHOLIC |
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CHURCH |
239 |
17 Development of Inculturation? |
241 |
The Relevance of Inculturation for Development |
241 |
Cultural Development |
245 |
Inculturation and Liberation |
247 |
18 Ecclesical Communion in the Multicultural Church |
251 |
Inculturation from Below |
251 |
A Multicultural Patrimony |
254 |
Ecclesical Partnership |
257 |
19 Inculturation at the Grass-Roots |
261 |
Cultural Realism and Creativity |
261 |
Inculturation as a Community Project |
264 |
Inculturation as a Way of Life |
267 |